Charleston

Date: circa 1970s

By: Spearpoint, Owen, active 2014

Reference: Eph-A-GOLD-1970s

Description: Facsimile of an 1860's certificate of a miner’s right to prospect for gold in Charleston. Contains further historical information about Mitchell’s Gully Gold Mine printed on the reverse. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Certificate with annotations in blue ball point pen, 110 x 140mm.

Date: 13 Dec 1882

By: Mouat, Magnus, active 1882

Reference: MS-Papers-2957

Description: Assignment of estate of Gilbert Harper to William and Gilbert Harper Mouat, by Magnus Mouat and William Sutherland; the land was situated near Charleston Witnessed by Manson Gardner Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms

Date: [19--]

From: Tracy, Mona Innis, 1897-1959 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0157-05

Description: Includes correspondence with Gregory Mitchell and notes on historical topics. Titles include: Tales of gold - The Claim of dreams; Behind green walls - Waitaha's day of days; Women on the old West Coast (incomplete). Notes and correspondence re Paddy Rafferty (1870s); Charleston; Nile River and Reefton; etc Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: [ca 1998]

From: Zeigler, John, 1912- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6349

Description: Biographical information supplied by Zeigler, describing his background, education, service during World War II, meeting his future partner Edwin Davis Peacock and the establishment of their shop, the Book Basement, in Charleston and his meeting with Noel Virtue which led to meeting other New Zealand writers including Una Platts; and poem, `The Shropshire lad at fifty' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (two pieces).

Date: 1913, 1920-1932

By: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-5041

Description: Prospecti, draft annual reports, mining and geological survey reports, and newspaper cuttings relevant to a number of gold and coal mining companies Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Ca 1867

By: Lewis, Janet K, active 2001; Lewis, John, active 1863-1869; Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PAColl-7114

Description: Photographs of Charleston, Addison's Flat and Wanganui taken ca 1867 by Thomas E Price. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-197495 to 197501-F Photocopies on shelf at PAColl-7114. Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negatives 10 x 12.5 cm Provenance: The prints were collected by the donor's grandfather, John Lewis, when resident in Otago and Westland 1863-1869.

Date: 1870 - 1890

By: Durie, H, active 1840s-1890s

Reference: G-280

Description: Moonlit scene of a river with bush-clad banks Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on cardboard 220 x 325 mm Provenance: Not known.

Date: [1950]

From: Wellman, Harold William, 1909-1999 : Papers

Reference: MSO-Papers-7919-3

Description: Two maps from `Tertiary and cretaceous geology of sheets S30 and S31 (Charleston and Buller)' See also further outsize accompanying papers at MSI-Papers-7919-5 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890]-1926

Reference: Micro-MS-0904

Description: Clippings on a variety of topics from the Charleston Herald Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (positive).

Date: 1957-1983

From: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc: Records and recordings

Reference: 84-180-49

Description: Includes files on: Power schemes, Lake Coleridge, Thermal no 1; Pungas; Political parties, environmental politics; Organisation of Wildlife Management and Research in New Zealand, report of Commission of Enquiry; QE II Trust; Rangaunu Bay (Northland); Reports and warrants from Rangers; Reserves, Charleston, Mt Bruce Native and Otari Native Gardens Quantity: 1 box(es). Finding Aids: Preliminary list of box contents available.

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Dyson, Mrs, fl 1958 :Photographs, chiefly of scenic views in the South Island in New Zealand, and Victoria in Australia

By: Clifford & Company; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA1-q-069

Description: Various photographers including De Maus, Henry Lock, F. Finch and Clifford & Co. Photographs include scenes at various gold-mining claims on the West Coast; bridges Over rivers on the West Coast and Otago regions; one of a large group of Freemasons carrying banners relating to various Lodges; and a number of images of Ballarat, Geelong and Queenscliff in Australia. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album with gold decoration, 31 x 26 cm

Date: 1866 - 1873

By: Greenwood, Alfred, 1842-1920?; Sayle, George Randall 1848?-1875

Reference: MapColl-834.192gmbd/1873/Acc.7677

Description: Survey map of the town of Charleston from Constance Bay in the west to the First Methodist parsonage in the east, with 396 numbered lots and a grid of roads. The map includes land designated for a school, post office, hospital, cemetry, new cemetry, cricket ground and a camp. An explosives magazine is located beside the bay, and a signal station on an island at the bay entrance. Tom Powell's coal pit, McClatchie Bros workings, another old workings, tail races and a dam are marked, as well as John Warner's milk farm. The northern extension of Camp Street is Buller Road to Westport and the southern end of Camp Street South is marked as the road to Brighton. The final version was issued in 1880 by the General Survey Office (MapColl-834.192bje/1880/7679,7680). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale 1:2 376, 48.4 x 32.8 cm

Date: 1955-1980

By: Given, Bruce, 1916-2001

Reference: PAColl-6386

Description: Views of Reefton, Langley Dale homestead, Marlborough, Kaikoura, Charleston and Victoria University, mostly taken by Bruce Given. Arrangement: Neg at 35mm, 33284 Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm strip with 3 images. 1 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-034

Description: The essay describes the lives of Peter and Lydia Christison who arrived in Wellington in 1842 on the `Clifton'. Peter worked there as a baker before he left for the Californian goldfields in 1850, and the next 30 years were spent in the pursuit of gold there and in New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photograph of Peter and Lydia Christison

Date: ca 1910

By: Moloney, Daniel Laurence, 1875-1949

Reference: 1/2-002315-F

Description: Postcard of Lady's Bay, Charleston Beach taken by D Maloney Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: ca1860s-ca1890s

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Godfrey, Jennifer, active 1990s

Reference: PAColl-5607

Description: A variety of photographs showing towns, gold being extracted from various claims, and Public ceremonies on the West Coast of New Zealand Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: From family estate

Date: 1980, 1981

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-5838

Description: Photographs of people and activities associated with the Summer City Festival, Wellington, 1981. Photographs of people and activities associated with the Festival of Plentitude, Charleston, 1980. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1999

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-436

Description: Shows leaves, flowers and seedheads of the brachyglottis rotundifolia var. ambigua. Artist's list: Brachyglottis rotundifolia var. ambigua: achenes and flowers Jan. 1999 from beside beach north of Charleston, coll. Natasha Grainger (D.O.C.) Appears on page 865 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - Department of Conservation; Flowers, north, January Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet 331 x 272 mm.

Date: [1950]

From: Wellman, Harold William, 1909-1999 : Papers

Reference: 2003-374-45

Description: Completed work on the tertiary and cretaceous geology of sheets S30 and S31 (Charleston and Buller) for a New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin; also includes appendices by J Marwick and C A Fleming, `Macrofossils from Charleston and Buller sheet districts' and `Microfaunas of Charleston and Buller sheets' by H J Finlay and N de B Hornibrook Arrangement: Outsize accompanying papers at MSI-Papers-7919-05 and MS0-Papers-7919-3 Quantity: 1 folder(s).